Legal Opinion

Pace v. Commonwealth

Kentucky Supreme Court

Decided January 31, 1978Published

1Opinion of the Court

561 S.W.2d 664 (1978)

Lanorma Wooster PACE, Appellant,

v.

COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Kentucky.

January 31, 1978.

Rehearing Denied March 14, 1978.

Jack Emory Farley, Public Defender, Larry H. Marshall, Asst. Public Defender, Frankfort, for appellant.

Robert F. Stephens, Atty. Gen., James S. Goldberg, Asst. Atty. Gen., Frankfort, for appellee.

CLAYTON, Justice.

The appellant, Lanorma Wooster Pace, was indicted for murder in the Harlan Circuit Court in connection with the March 1976 shooting death of her husband, Charles Pace. A jury of her peers found Lanorma guilty of the…

Also in this document: Concurrence; Dissent · Jones; Dissent · Stephenson.

2Cases cited19 opinions

  1. People v. SedenoCalifornia Supreme Court · 1974
  2. People v. CarmenCalifornia Supreme Court · 1951
  3. Jewell v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 1977
  4. State v. BrownSupreme Court of Missouri · 1973
  5. Dolan v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1971

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